Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...